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Practice Test for TExES Health Science (273) Latest Graded A+
Question 1: Who is known as the "Father of Medicine"?
CORRECT ANSWER: Hippocrates
Question 2: Who invented the microscope lens that allowed
visualization of organisms?
CORRECT ANSWER: Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Question 3: Who invented bifocals?
CORRECT ANSWER: Benjamin Franklin
Question 4: Who performed the first ovariotomy?
CORRECT ANSWER: Ephraim McDowell
Question 5: Who developed a vaccination for smallpox in 1796?
CORRECT ANSWER: Edward Jenner
Question 6: Who invented the stethoscope in 1819?
CORRECT ANSWER: Rene Laennec
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Question 7: Who was the first female physician in the United
States in 1849?
CORRECT ANSWER: Elizabeth Blackwell
Question 8: Who discovered the cause of puerperal (childbed)
fever and introduced antisepsis into medical practice?
CORRECT ANSWER: Ignaz Semmelweis
Question 9: Who is known as the "Founder of Modern
Nursing"?
CORRECT ANSWER: Florence Nightingale
Question 10: Who is known as the "Father of Microbiology"?
CORRECT ANSWER: Louis Pasteur
Question 11: Who was the first doctor to use an antiseptic
during surgery?
CORRECT ANSWER: Joseph Lister
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Question 12: Who formed the American Red Cross in 1881 and
served as its first president?
CORRECT ANSWER: Clara Barton
Question 13: Who developed the culture plate method to
identify pathogens?
CORRECT ANSWER: Robert Koch
Question 14: Who discovered roentgenograms (X-rays) in 1895?
CORRECT ANSWER: Wilhelm Roentgen
Question 15: Whose studies were the basis for psychology and
psychiatry?
CORRECT ANSWER: Sigmund Freud
Question 16: Who was the first physician to introduce heat
sterilisation of surgical instruments?
CORRECT ANSW ER: Ernest von Bergmann
Question 17: Who discovered penicillin in 1928?
CORRECT ANSWER: Sir Alexander Fleming
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Question 18: Who discovered the polio vaccine?
CORRECT ANSWER: Jonas Salk & Albert Sabin
Question 19: Who described the structure of DNA and how it
carries genetic information in 1953?
CORRECT ANSWER: Francis Crick & James Watson
Question 20: Who performed the first successful heart transplant
in 1968?
CORRECT ANSWER: Christian Barnard
Question 21: Who was the creator of the first artificial heart?
CORRECT ANSWER: Robert Jarvik
Question 22: Who is famous for his surgeries to separate
Siamese twins?